Bridge to Terabithia
Bridge to Terabithia

Leslie Burke: Just close your eyes, but keep your mind wide open.

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Bridge to Terabithia

Leslie Burke: You are who you are - not your parents.

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Bridge to Terabithia

Jesse Aarons: [crying] Is it like the Bible says? Is she going to Hell?
Jack Aarons: I don't know everything about God, but I do know he's not going to send that little girl to Hell.
Jesse Aarons: [sobs] Then I'm going to Hell, because it's all my fault.
Jack Aarons: Don't you think that, even for a minute.


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Bridge to Terabithia

Leslie Burke: [speaking about the Bible] You have to believe it, and you hate it. I don't have to believe it, and I think it's beautiful.

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Bridge to Terabithia

Bill Burke: You know, the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. That's Teddy Roosevelt said that, not me.

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Bridge to Terabithia

Jack Aarons: She brought you something special when she came here, didn't she? That's what you hold onto. That's how you keep her alive.

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Bridge to Terabithia

Jesse Aarons: Next time, we should invite Leslie to go. She'd like that.

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Jesse Aarons: How come you're so good at that?
Leslie Burke: Good at what?
Jesse Aarons: Building stuff. I mean, you're really good at it for a girl.
Leslie Burke: Same way I'm fast... for a girl.
Jesse Aarons: You know what I mean.
Leslie Burke: You're pretty

good at art, for a boy.
Jesse Aarons: Okay, okay, truce.

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Leslie Burke: I seriously do not think God goes around damning people to hell. He's too busy running all this!

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Bridge to Terabithia

Jesse Aarons: That's what Leslie Burke says. She told me to keep my mind wide open.
Ms. Edmonds: Leslie Burke is right. Mind like yours wide open, you could create a whole new world.

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Bridge to Terabithia

Leslie Burke: We rule Terabithia, and nothing crushes us!

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Bridge to Terabithia

Mrs. Myers: When my husband died, people kept telling me not to cry. People kept trying to help me to forget. But, I didn't wanna forget.
[sniffles]
Mrs. Myers: Excuse me.
[chuckles]
Mrs. Myers: The things that girl came up with. I don't get students like her too often. So I realize, that if it's hard for me, how much

harder it must be for you.

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Leslie Burke: What if you don't have a TV?
[the class laughs]
Leslie Burke: My dad says the TV kills brain cells.
Scott Hoager: Your dad doesn't know anything. We watch TV like every day!
Leslie Burke: I rest my case.
Mrs. Myers: Well then, Leslie, you don't have to write this

essay. You can pick something else to write about.
Scott Hoager: Yeah, like how to live in a cave!

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Bridge to Terabithia

Scott Hoager: So, looks like you're the fastest kid in the class now, huh?
[Jesse stands and turns]
Scott Hoager: It's a joke, dude!
[punches him hard into a wall]
Scott Hoager: Are you nuts?

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Bridge to Terabithia

Leslie Burke: Write, "Dear Janice..."
Jesse Aarons: You do it.
Leslie Burke: No way. Boys' handwriting sucks. No offense. It's gotta be you.

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Bridge to Terabithia

Bill Burke: She loved you, you know.

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Bridge to Terabithia

Leslie Burke: You're lucky to have a sister.
Jesse Aarons: Yeah, I got four of 'em, and I'd trade 'em all for a good dog.

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Bridge to Terabithia

Jesse Aarons: [squogres come] Where are Terabithian warriors when you need 'em?
Leslie Burke: I don't know!
Jesse Aarons: [Terabithian warrior comes] Great! Now there's three of us!

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Bridge to Terabithia

Jesse Aarons: Look, the Squogre and the Vulture.
Gary Fulcher: Hey, here he comes.
Leslie Burke: And a guy who can stand up to a squogre is scared of a Hoager?
Jesse Aarons: [pauses, then walks up to Ms. Edmunds's car] Ms. Edmunds?
Ms. Edmonds: [gasps] He speaks!

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Bridge to Terabithia

Leslie BurkeMay Belle Aarons, Little Kids: [chanting] Free to pee! Free to pee! Free to pee!